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When I began teaching at my previous school, a huge number of our students were recent refugees from Syria. I began teaching there in September of 2017 and I taught grade 7/8 so my students had some memory of their lives before the war. Two of them paired up to do a research project and I remember them showing me photos of beautiful landmarks in Aleppo (where one of the students had lived). A few days later, they stumbled across one of those “before and after” posts showing the same landmark, which had been destroyed. I don’t think I will ever forget the look of sorrow on her face.

I believe so.

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@wtg I grew up catching stripers in the Chesapeake Bay. Best tasting fish there is, IMO.

By now "switched at birth" stories have many precedents. Not that that makes it easy emotionally for the people evolved; but there should be templates to trace on how to go forward practically. Chances are they will be fine.

The system has glitched on a
on a periodic basis but a tacitly partisan approach to changing it is DOA.

I figure if they were good, we'd still be eating them.

HPS lights like that have fallen out of favor because LEDs are so much cheaper to operate. It’s not much of a consideration for a household porch light but for parking lot and street lighting it’s a big deal.

You can tell how much electricity costs in a particular area by what color the street lights are. In my town power is dirt cheap and the light in front of my house is a warm yellow HPS lamp. When the crew came out to replace it I asked why they weren’t installing a modern LED and was told that my municipality scored a deal on thousands of HPS lamps on closeout (likely because no one wants them anymore) and would be using HPS far out in to the future.

Fly in to LA and it’s a completely different story. Power in LA is fabulously expensive and pretty much every light in town has been changed out. We did a pretty good business changing them out before I retired.

@Steve-Miller said in DOGE will be a test:

I’m so old I remember the Grace commission. They came up with any number of good ideas that went exactly nowhere.

This latest iteration is DOA.

Yea, DOGE is listed in the See Also section of the Wikipedia entry for the Grace Commission. 😀

@wtg

Rooting for injuries is all they’re gonna get from me. I predict that they’ll scratch each other’s eyes out.

@AndyD 😂

Thanks @RealPlayer

Hi @Steve-Miller, I remember you too. Things are OK thanks. I didn't comment in your thread about Rory but I found it very interesting. I hope he can overcome his challenges and make the most of his talents.

Oh, dear

"Robot" is what I say into the phone when I get frustrated by those ubiquitous computer systems answering almost any business call these days some of them complex.

I'll start addressing the system as "robot" if I get frustrated and if I get very frustrated I'll repeat "agent' over and over until I get one or the computer ends the call. I'll call right back if that happens and start again. I find I have to deal with this a lot especially with healthcare.

The other side of the coin is seemingly endless forms on the internet coming to a dead stop if one letter, number, or character is incorrect.

This reminds to find a provider for an eye exam.

I don't think I'll do it until at least the end of the week. I have five medical appointments between Monday and Wednesday already scheduled.

I might take Thursday off and try to make an appointment on Friday.

I have three new medications to take from the specialist, a two month follow up appointment, and a referral to a urologist.

I don't know what to think about robots but I guess they're here to stay.

They don't use the word, "invasion" in the phrase, "invasion of privacy," for nothing.

Creepy and disgusting.

Both of those articles are great! 👍